Can shared at BBGG. Hazy yellow. Pineapple, mango, cactus fruit, dank weedy hops, lemon. Over medium sweet, light bitter. Medium bodied. Nice.

18/XI/25 - on tap @ HoReCa Expo (Gent), BB: n/a (2025-1275) Thanks to all for sharing today’s beers!

Clear deep orange blond beer, small creamy dense off-white head, unstable, falls down quickly, a bit adhesive. Aroma: malty, grains, caramel, a hint of roast. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: very malty, caramel, grains, good bitterness, cow fodder, a bit sourish. Aftertaste: nice bitterness, grassy, hay, barnyard, more bitter, slightly metallic, cow fodder, decent stuff!

16/X/25 - 33cl can from DOK Brewing (Gent), shared @ home, BB: 30/VIII/26, batch: DOK269 (2025-1013)

Pretty cloudy beige blond beer, big creamy irregular white head, pretty stable, a little adhesive, leaving some lacing in the glass. Aroma: nice, quite some tropical fruits, a bit yeasty, ripe banana, citrus, satzuma, grapefruit, tangerines, a little dank, marijuana, onions, zesty, nice! MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: very grassy, herbal, dank, slightly smoky, some marijuana, very bitter, a bit zesty, bitter orange peel, dank, earthy. Aftertaste: soft acidity, citrus notes, bitter grapefruit, dank hops, a bit resinous, slightly smoky.

16/X/25 - 33cl can from DOK Brewing (Gent), shared @ home, BB: 16/VI/26, batch: DOK264 (2025-1012)

Little cloudy deep beige blond beer, solid creamy irregular white head, stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: lovely, lots of citrus, tangerine, orange peel, lime, floral notes, some satzuma, lychee, nice! MF: ok carbon, medium to light body. Taste: a little hoppy, gentle acidity up front, fruity, a little sweet, a bit soapy, citrus notes, a bit grassy, herbal. Aftertaste: more bitter, dry, grassy, some citrus, malty touch, herbal, soapy bitterness in the finish, ok but not great.

15/X/25 - 33cl can from DOK Brewing (Gent), shared @ home, BB: 30/VII/26, batch: DOK267 (2025-1010)

Clear to very slightly hazy gold yellow beer, big aery irregular white head, a little stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: nice, very floral, fruity notes, some tropical fruits, papaya, citrus, some kiwi, white grapes. MF: lively carbon, medium body. Taste: nice, ripe to slightly overripe fruits, some sweet physalis, floral touch. Aftertaste: a bit spicy, herbal and fruity, grassy, sourish touch, some kiwi, good bitterness, slightly soapy, some orange peel, nice one!

Pacific pale ale (PPA, I guess) but not with New Zealand hops as is most often the case in this segment: here some of the more recent, but nevertheless familiar Australian varieties were used, albeit supported by German Merkur (one can wonder why, surely an Australian one could have done that job just as well); collab with Lucky Bay in Western Australia and brewed with malts from Hof ten Dormaal (the farmer-brewer) and famed Dingemans. Huge foamy head, inches thick, egg-white, crackling, cobweb-lacing, pillowy and only slowly receding; hazy peach-gold with ochre-ish tinge. Aroma of lemon zest, grapefruit flesh, freshly cut Chinese aloe, cilantro leaves, thuja branches, green guava, white hand soap (oddly), pitaya, white bread, unripe pineapple, gypsum, green apple, deeply hidden orange somewhere, very vague and volatile whiff of young Gouda cheese. Fruity onset in an exotic way, notes of guava, watermelon, dragonfruit, lychee; lively carb but fine-bubbled, smooth and somewhat creamy mouthfeel. Porridge- and white bread-like malts soaked in tropical, yet not overly sweet hop aromas - as a Pacific breeze sweeping through it all, with an almost aloe-based shampoo-like touch to it, as in a television commercial... Flavours of guava, unripe mango, lychee and green kiwi fill the finish retronasally, while down below, a white pepper- and lightly grapefruit flesh-like bitterness settles, spreading over the tongue's root, but remaining altogether gentle and citrusy rather than deeply bittering. Interesting, 'breezy', soapy, green-fruity APA which I guess is a PPA only because of the hop varieties used - showing how thin the lines between all those different subtypes of IPA and APA can be. This one may not entirely be my cup of tea, but it is well executed and entertaining for sure.

Newish APA by Dok and a single hop one, featuring nothing but Krush, a hop variety launched officially only in 2024 by the Hop Breeding Company, operating in the upper echelons of the current hop industry. I have encountered this variety once before but I cannot remember in which beer or from which brewery - in any case this is Dok's first application of it. Irregular, intricately 'sun prominence-like', yellowish egg-white, medium thick, opening but otherwise more or less retaining head on a cloudy apricot blonde robe with beige-ish tinge. Quite distinct and interesting aroma of green guava, pepino, raw Kohlrabi, fresh grapefruit zest, unripe apricot, lemon bread, cut true aloe leaves, hints of young redcedar leaves, green plum, surimi, barley porridge. Restrainedly sweetish, quite juicy onset, citric, with side hints of unripe green fruits - far less 'tropical' than I was expecting, unless of course one counts unripe tropical fruits, "à la" green mango, green guava or green carambola; medium carb, smooth body, a tad powdery, with a basic porridge-like barley 'sponginess' soaked in the Krush hops, adding a range of 'green' aromas in spite of their proportionally low myrcene content - almost as in green kale stalks (or indeed Kohlrabi), cucumber peel and matcha tea, but also hints of freshly cooked shrimp (oddly), parsley, dandelion leaves and pear peel. The hops in question also deposit a late yet persisting, eventually quite 'deep' peppery bitterness. Totally different from what I was expecting from this hop variety based on what is typically advertized for, far less 'sultry' and far more 'green plant-like', but all the more interesting for it - this relative oddity has notes of green house plants and raw green stalks one does not find in just any beer so in that respect it is certainly a different take on the typically sweet-citrusy, mango- and passionfruit-like aromas and flavours of other contemporary APAs. One of those beers that show that Dok continues to be at the cutting edge of international developments in brewing - it takes a very alert and passionate brewing team to maintain this approach especially in times when craft beer seems to be a bit on the wane here in Belgium. A bit of a challenge, this one, but once you get used to it, it keeps surprising with its unexpected, sometimes even downright odd features. I am happy to give an extra point for that.